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A medieval illumination in eight panels showing seasonal rural work — falconry, mowing, harvesting, threshing, sowing, grape‑pressing, pig‑tending, and indoor crop processing — all rendered in bright, patterned medieval style.

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How grim was life as a medieval farmer? Here are 6 things you need to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval illustration of a person ploughing a field with two oxen. The oxen are harnessed in a pair, pulling a large wooden plough with a single wheel. The background is painted in warm yellow and orange tones, giving the scene a simple, stylised look.

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How did the Anglo-Saxons triumph in Britain? You can blame it on the Romans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A large assortment of cheeses packed closely together, including wheels, wedges, blocks and small tubs in a wide range of colours from pale cream to deep orange and blue. The mix of smooth, cracked, mould‑flecked and rind‑covered surfaces highlights the variety of cheese styles on display.

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A stylised, brightly coloured scene shows a group of 19th‑century men, women, and children standing in a pastoral landscape. Some hold farm tools or baskets of apples, others sip tea, and an older woman knits beside them. In front of the group, a table holds a modern blue radio emitting musical notes, a teacup, and a small bird, with a dog resting underneath.

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Want to understand modern Britain? Look towards its villages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century print shows sailors in a small boat harpooning a whale beside a sailing ship. The whale thrashes in the waves as spouts of water rise from its back.

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“It was the greatest act of violence for 66 million years”: why the modern world was born of bloodshed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Tudor work: what jobs did people do?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustrated drawing shows 3 peasants, dressed in yellow, green and orange, exchanging goods including corn and chicken. A pink pig is in the foreground

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Live locally, live sustainably, live medieval. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From fatal foliage to the perils of ploughing: the Tudor calendar of death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Adam Henson and Robert Bakewell

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A brief guide to the British Iron Age

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Old Crofters Cottage, near Broadford, looking North, Isle of Skye, Scotland. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Engraving of a brewery

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Q&AWho made the first booze?

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